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Garments without Guilt?
Explores how labour struggles in the post-1977 period in Sri Lanka provided important resistance to capitalist processes.
Handbook on Gender in Asia
The Handbook on Gender in Asia critically examines, through a gender perspective, five broad themes of significance to Asia: the ‘Theory and Practice’ of researching in Asia; ‘Gender, Ageing and Health’; ‘Gender and Labour’; ‘Gendered Migrations and Mobilities’; and ‘Gender at the Margins’. With each chapter providing an overview of the key intellectual developments on the issue under discussion, as well as empirical examples to examine how the Asian case sheds light on these debates, this collection will be an invaluable reference for scholars of gender and Asia.
Matrilineal Communities, Patriarchal Realities
A study of Muslim, Sinhala, and Tamil households in Sri Lanka that examines the commonality of the patriarchal structures and economic problems in such households
Garments Without Guilt?
"This book explores the ways in which labour struggles in the post-1977 period provided important resistance to capitalist processes and continue to shape the industry both within and outside of the shop floor. It studies contextual moments in the history of Sri Lanka to rupture the dominant narrative and bring out the centrality of labour for the success of the country's apparel industry. It argues that speaking about producing guilt free garments requires a greater attentiveness to the voice and struggles of labour. It works to bring out the "exceptionality" of Sri Lanka's apparel industry and the ways in which it upholds of ethical codes of conduct, particularly from the viewpoint of labour. The book will contribute to debates on ethical codes and labour politics in the global South, and do so within the contemporary neoliberal milieu of corporate governance regimes. It will also speak to debates on the advent of neoliberalism and labour politics by studying the ways in which labour has challenged, shaped and resisted capitalism and capitalist processes within the apparel sector"--
Unmaking the Global Sweatshop
Unmaking the Global Sweatshop gathers the work of leading anthropologists and ethnographers studying the global garment industry's impact on workers' well-being and examines the relationship between the politics of labor and initiatives to protect workers' health and safety.
The Golden Wave
In December 2004 the Indian Ocean tsunami devastated coastal regions of Sri Lanka. Six months later, Michele Ruth Gamburd returned to the village where she had been conducting research for many years and began collecting residents' stories of the disaster and its aftermath: the chaos and loss of the flood itself; the sense of community and leveling of social distinctions as people worked together to recover and regroup; and the local and national politics of foreign aid as the country began to rebuild. In The Golden Wave, Gamburd describes how the catastrophe changed social identities, economic dynamics, and political structures.
Labour in Global Value Chains in Asia
""Brings together a set of studies of labour conditions in GVCs - in labour-intensive sectors, medium- and high-technology sectors and knowledge-intensive sectors"--Provided by publisher"--
Gender: The Key Concepts
This invaluable volume provides an overview of 37 terms, theories and concepts frequently used in gender studies which those studying the subject can find difficult to grasp. Each entry provides a critical definition of the concept, examining the background to the idea, its usage and the major figures associated with the term. Taking a truly interdisciplinary and global view of gender studies, concepts covered include: Agency Diaspora Heteronormativity Subjectivity Performativity Class Feminist Politics Body Gender identity Reflexivity. With cross referencing and further reading provided throughout the text, Gender: The Key Concepts unweaves the relationships between different aspects of the field defined as gender studies, and is essential for all those studying gender in interdisciplinary contexts as undergraduates, postgraduates and beyond.
Concise Encyclopedia of Human Geography
With 78 specially commissioned entries written by a diverse range of contributors, this essential reference book covers the breadth and depth of human geography to provide a lively and accessible state of the art of the discipline for students, instructors and researchers.
Fast Fashion
Fast Fashion: A cut from Clothing Poverty marks the two-year anniversary of the disastrous collapse of the Rana Plaza factory in Bangladesh on 24 April 2013. Featuring a new introduction along with a chapter from the previously published Clothing Poverty: The hidden world of fast fashion and second-hand clothes, Andrew Brooks stitches together the events of the Rana Plaza tragedy with the hidden world of fast fashion, providing a short but enlightening exposé of the global commodity chains which perpetuate poverty.
